Workspace
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This webpage aims to provide key information, contacts and links regarding the issue of workspaces for artists and creative practitioners. The page was established in August 2006 with the goal to become a comprehensive source of information in this area by the end of 2006 – please call back to check for updates.
The page currently contains information and links under the following headings (currently the focus of this information is on the UK – European and international information and links will also be added in due course):
Possible future topics to be covered by this webpage include:
- Financing Workspaces
- Finding a Workspace
- Legal Issues affecting Workspaces
- Management of Workspaces
The following Culture.Info subportals also contain some information relevant to this topic:
Key Studies and Reports
UK
Artists' Insights
The following information has been provided by Arts Council England in advance of their own website for this initiative being launched in the near future:
Unlocking the potential...
Artists' Insights aims to unlock the artists' professional potential and develop the arts throughout England to the benefit of everyone.
Our research has shown that artists working in all art forms face many obstacles to their creativity and careers. With Artists' Insights, Arts Council England is working in partnership to help artists address their most common issues. Six action-based initiatives are already under way to benefit artists' work and artists' lives, and to make sure they can:
- Interact through innovative placements in research and industry movements
- Invigorate their careers, through opportunities for creative renewal
- Interpret the law as it affects them, through expert legal guidance
- Influence their future wellbeing, through long-term financial planning
- Inhabit affordable, sustainable workspaces in which they can create and experiment
- Inform the wider world of the professional, social and economic value of their skills
Understanding artists' needs...
By working in partnership to help them address their most common issues, Arts Council England can enable artists to concentrate on making challenging and innovative work that illuminates our culture, making our communities better places to live.
What happens next?
Look out for:
- A small brochure that outlines this work
- A series of postcard images which visualise this work
- Individual booklets on how we plan to support artists in each area
- Outcomes of the work of our Associate Artist, Johnny Magee who is tracking our progress in a very different way
- A place on our website featuring new information about Artists' Insights
- Project updates and information sheets
Click here for information on the work being undertaken by DCA Consultants on this project
The London Digest: a survey of artists' studios groups and organisations in London (March 2006)
Commercial workspace provision for artists – a comparison with the affordable sector, Michael Cubey (March 2006)
Both of these can be downloaded (in PDF format) from www.acme.org.uk - click on "News" to find links
To view a summary of the London Digest report, click here
History of Artists in East London, an initiative from ACME
Creative Yorkshire: visual artists in shared workspaces - resources and facilities, Arts Council England (2005)
Implementing Droit de Suite (artists' resale right) in England (from 2006), Arts Council England (2002)
Supporting artists' workspace: Three Arts Council funded studio conferences, Arts Council England (2003)
Advice and Guidance
UK
The Studios Toolkit (July 2003), a-n, The Artists Information Company
The following guides, written in April 2003, are available (to subscribers only) from a-n, The Artists Information Company:
Getting Legal Advice
Insurance
Safe Working Practice
Setting Up an Organisation
Development and Support Agencies
This is not a comprehensive listing of all agencies offering workspaces for artists or creative practitioners, but rather a listing of those organisations which provide support or undertake initiatives which aim to develop the provision of workspaces for artists and creative practitioners.
UK
ACME, London
Creative Space Agency, London
Creative Space Management Ltd, Huddersfield
Integria, London, Luton & Taunton
National Federation of Artists’ Studio Providers (NFASP) the professional membership body for groups and organisations providing affordable studios for artists in England. The NFASP supports and promotes the work that studio providers do and campaigns to secure, sustain, improve and increase affordable studios provision in England.
NEspace, North East England
Case Studies
UK
Selected Case Studies , prepared by Keith Hackett for a series of EUCLID Seminars (June 2006)
Artists and Studios (March 2005), a-n, The Artists Information Company
Group Studios (March 2005), a-n, The Artists Information Company
Artists and Studios (April 2003), a-n, The Artists Information Company
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